Coming out to Minnesota for six weeks, I packed the only available laptop, the iBook G4 that my father no longer uses. It’s old and slow and doesn’t run Leopard, but it’s a perfectly adequate writing machine, which is all … Continue reading
She giggles! (Earlier this week.) She rolls over! (Just now!) A spectacularly good-humored baby, she also cheerily puts up with her grandfather. We’re having a wonderful time together. After particular…effortful…moments, we’ve begun to collaborate on something that Mrs. Tingley, the … Continue reading
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Just an odd thing that has stuck with me for a while. I read somewhere last month that the average weight of a major league ballplayer in the early ’70s—guys of my generation— was 182 lb. (13 stone). It is … Continue reading
I’m in Minnesota, renewing acquaintances with the fast-changing sweet B, who now charms as a smiling and gurgling drool machine. A goes back to work tomorrow, after a month’s paternity leave, and H continues her pediatrics sub-internship at the hospital. … Continue reading
We weep. We dance. We breathe again. … Continue reading
Dan Froomkin’s always invaluable column today has an interesting roundup of opinions on what Obama’s victory means to the people who voted for him. He says it boils down to “a call for a restoration of American values, pre-Bush.” The … Continue reading
Always the first district in the U.S. to report its vote in Presidential Elections, it’s a beautiful township in Northeastern New Hampshire (with great, uncrowded hiking). Here’s the story (poor Hart’s Location): This morning, Dixville Notch reported 15 votes for … Continue reading
Quiet competence is so refreshing. Obama Field Director John Carson: Spokesman Bill Burton: … Continue reading
Good politicians, of course, share certain attributes with good salesmen. The one that impresses me most, because I absolutely don’t have it, is a particular kind of memory. They remember your name, your spouse’s name, your children’s names, and a … Continue reading